Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:41:22 +0100 From: Henry Vogt <hv@tuebingen.mpg.de> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x11/gdm: default IPv6 disables IPv4 for xdmcp Message-ID: <41720393-5B72-4DDE-9F83-FFC07FF5A65A@tuebingen.mpg.de> In-Reply-To: <1166297330.21155.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <00614590@srv.sem.ipt.ru> <1166295004.21155.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <48751517@srv.sem.ipt.ru> <1166297330.21155.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 16.12.2006 um 20:28 schrieb Joe Marcus Clarke: > On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 22:13 +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote: >> On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:50:04 -0500 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >>> On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 22:30 +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote: >> >>>> Way back before gnome-2.14 IPv6 and IPv4 were mutual exclusive. >>>> Current gdm-2.16.4 behaves the same: >>>> >>>> - gdm built with defaults listens only at udp6: >>>> %netstat -a | grep xdm >>>> udp6 0 0 *.xdmcp *.* >>>> >>>> - disabling IPv6 helps to listen at udp4. >> >>> GDM has been fixed so that if IPv6 support is enabled, IPv4=20=20 >>> support will >>> still work iff v6 does not at runtime. So, GDM will attempt to bind >> >> OK. As I understand it is so designed that with current defaults >> (GENERIC kernel, GDM built with default values, etc -- i.e. the >> recommended testing machine) GDM will not give IPv4 xdmcp access... > > Correct. If you have IPv6 enabled interfaces, then GDM will use IPv6. There is a syscctl to avoid this: (found by googling around). Put net.inet6.ip6.v6only=3D0 into /etc/sysctl.conf and gdm will listen on both v4 and v6. Best Henry - -- Netzwerk- und System Administration am MPI Campus T=FCbingen. Email: hv@tuebingen.mpg.de Tel. 07071/601-511 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFhVcZiF3PvXvQ0FARArTOAKC2YdtZ+EeNsIgqNXoI5or2sIbd5QCfRx10 V0HuGydBtuMfMsq8mXMYmOA=3D =3DwDoV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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